agent/papers/items/2026-2606-22953-plans-don-t-persist-why-context-management-is-load-bearing-for-llm-agents.md

Paper: Plans Don't Persist: Why Context Management Is Load Bearing for LLM Agents

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type: paper title: "Plans Don't Persist: Why Context Management Is Load Bearing for LLM Agents" authors: Aman Mehta, Anupam Datta year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22953 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-06-22 updated_at: 2026-06-22 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• planning
• reasoning
• tool-use methods:

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• cs.AI
• cs.CL related_concepts:

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collection_score: 13 collection_queries: planning-agent

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: planning-agent
• inferred topics: planning, reasoning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.AI, cs.CL
• collection score: 13

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22953